Former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP leader Brij Bhushan Singh believes India's grapplers' finishing with 10 medals in the Asian Wrestling Championships 2025 is a big achievement, considering it has been a long time since India won this many medals in a competition.
Olympic medallist Yogeshwar Dutt took a jibe at former wrestler-turned-politician Vinesh Phogat for "seeking benefits" from the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Haryana government after fiercely opposing the BJP during the wrestler's protests.
It proved to be a luckless day for the Indian wrestling contingent on Saturday as no wrestler managed to qualify for a medal bout in the Freestyle Wrestling competition at the 2025 Senior Asian Wrestling Championship.
Wrestlers Manisha Bhanwala (62 kg) and Antim Panghal (53 kg) brought laurels for India as they bagged gold and bronze medals, respectively, in their respective categories at the Asian Wrestling Championships 2025 in Amman, Jordan, on Friday, as per the Olympics.com.
Reetika Hooda, the reigning Under-23 world champion, bagged a silver medal in the women's freestyle 76kg division at the Asian Wrestling Championships 2025 in Amman, Jordan.
Indian Olympic medallist wrestler Bajrang Punia strongly criticized the government after several farmers were arrested in the protest at the Shambhu Border in Punjab. He said, "The government was just pretending to talk to farmers. Arresting them after discussions shows that they are not
Former wrestler and Congress MLA Vinesh Phogat said that everyone saw the hide-and-seek that the government was trying to play with Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.